Bug 662548 – gnome-extra/cinnamon make networkmanager optional

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nick Reale 2018-07-31 20:59:25 UTC]

The only package in the Cinnamon suite that doesn't have configure options to remove NetworkManager support is the main Cinnamon package. Attached is a proposed patch I've been using privately to remedy that.

[Comment 1 Nick Reale 2018-07-31 21:02:07 UTC]

Created attachment 541914 [details]
cinnamon-3.8.8.ebuild

edited ebuild to make NetworkManager optional, removing nm-applet files from the final build that cause Cinnamon to not start without NetworkManager.

[Comment 2 Nick Reale 2018-07-31 21:03:03 UTC]

Created attachment 541916 [details, diff]
cinnamon-3.8.8-optional-networkmanager.patch

patch to make NetworkManager optional

[Comment 3 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2018-08-02 11:51:51 UTC]

(In reply to Nick Reale from comment #2)
> Created attachment 541916 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> cinnamon-3.8.8-optional-networkmanager.patch
> 
> patch to make NetworkManager optional

The patch looks simple enough, but is there a current upstream issue report for this request?

[Comment 4 Nick Reale 2018-08-02 20:05:52 UTC]

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/6339 I interrupted the reply here and the issue being closed as a "won't fix"

[Comment 5 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) 2018-08-03 07:27:21 UTC]

(In reply to Nick Reale from comment #4)
> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/6339 I interrupted the reply
> here and the issue being closed as a "won't fix"

That does not contain the actual patch though (cinnamon upstream prefers it as a PR), we should at least try out whether they want to keep it upstream before patching downstream

[Comment 6 Nick Reale 2020-06-04 20:42:46 UTC]

Cinnamon 4.4 has solved this! Finally able to ditch my user patches

[Comment 7 Joonas Niilola 2020-06-05 05:38:08 UTC]

See comment above.